Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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Recently, archaeologists excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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